Exactly. MS has used Git internally for their development for years. It has nothing to do with github. They don't need github for what they do. So there's no technical reason for taking over github. What, then, are the *real* reasons? Not technical, so it must be for something else. And that's the problem here.

That's what I think too. If so, they are very highly likely to leave it alone.

Saw this kind of thing in CAD. The biggest customer basically bought the CAD company, said it's not their business, and it hasn't been. They did leave it largely alone. The CAD business did benefit from now basically earning it's own dog food.

Microsoft may well benefit from GitHub doing what it does well in a similar fashion.

Well then, you might want to make yourself open for some real true American tech-giant employment! Get that LinkedIn page brought current quickly, Heater! Make sure your Facebook page is devoid of anything but fun-loving photos of yourself at a Hackathon. Be sure you post some pictures of yourself drinking a latte and eating some avocado toast, too.

Worse then that. The real heater finally burned out. This is his clone, a backup twin brother. But with several manufacturing defects embedded. But still glows all the time like a 50W light bulb. Or worse, burns with the smell of paraffin, or what we call kerosene. (Also used as lamp fuel here.)